At 5:55 pm on August 4, 2020, in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, there was a massive chemical explosion at a warehouse containing thousands of…
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According to a statement put out by the United Nations at the beginning of April 2022, over 12 million Ukrainians have been displaced due to…
Russia and Ukraine have been involved in a 14-year conflict that has become increasingly tense over the past few months. The conflict began in 2008,…
In May of 2021 Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced plans to “reopen” the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem. The consulate closed in 2019, when the…
In order to find out more about this crisis, we turned to Ilya Ponomarev, a seasoned Russian politician. Ponomarev was a member of the State…
Poland has had a fraught immigration policy throughout its post-communist history. Following World War II, and occupied by the Soviet Union, Poland was a satellite…
Over this year’s Holiday break, I was an onlooker at our family’s annual game of Risk, the classic game of war and international diplomacy. For…
“Just bring everything you could need,” my mom stressed through speaker phone as I scrambled to put together the endless stream of paperwork for my…
As she enters her 2022 campaign season, Stacey Abrams leaves this note with all Georgians: “I’ve never stopped fighting for Georgia. I’ve never lost faith…